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You are free to hand them your eReader with the book on it for as long as you/they desire. Just as long as you don't make and distribute copies of the book. Even with a physical book, you do not buy the right to make copies.
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The main difference being, in my opinion, that with ebooks editors do have the means to enforce these policies, whereas it is quite complicated with paper books, as you rightly put it.
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When you buy a book, you really buy an object. You can read it, multiple time, give it, sell it, you can throw it in the corner of your room and find it again months later. The main ban is that you cannot copy it. But this ban, the subject of the copyright, applies to the content, not the object.
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In the past, book publishers could rely upon the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to make small numbers of copies of a book. Rather than photocopy or pay a scribe to correctly transcribe a book. it was cheaper to just buy another copy. With digital files, the effective price of a user copying a book approaches 0. Thus, publishers have sought out other means of reducing the incentive to copy.
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Of course, if the DRM is no more protected, or if the law changes, then you are right. But in this case, the DRM have no more purpose. |
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Amazon has lend a book to a one friend with a kindle for 14 days system. Publishers limit which books you can lend. Kobo never had this lending system but you could borrow e-books from pubic library for reading on Kobo reader long before this was possible with kindle readers.
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I don't know exactly what a pubic library might be, but I'm pretty sure I'd like to visit one.
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The point about "sales" of digital media vs licencing to view, made me think of DVD's also. I can buy a DVD and lend it to a friend. I can buy a CD and lend it to a friend. Ebook sellers are being too greedy IMO. |
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More recently, you can go the library's web site and borrow ebooks, again for a limited time period. You don't have to return them, they expire after the time period. By expire, I mean the DRM ceases to allow you to open and read them after they have expired. |
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